Why listen to music?

Quinn 2022-01-11 08:03:06

I'm going to reply tomorrow. Originally I was going to prepare my thesis statement today, but I sat down in the library and watched a biopic of Beethoven, immortal love, and I was very excited after watching it.
Beethoven was the first musician I knew and heard the most. I remember when I was in my third year of high school, I played Pei Jiu on the ragged DVD in the rental house every afternoon, repeating the cycle all afternoon, listening to Pei Jiu while doing homework. Later, when I went to college, Bei Jiu always kept the tracks no matter in my player, computer or mobile phone. I listened to it countless times and listened to various versions. However, I always felt that Karajan's version was the most authentic. Maybe it was just because of the original When I accepted it, I listened to Karajan's version, so latecomers found it a bit strange, especially the widely acclaimed Berlin version of Ford Wenger. From the beginning of Beijiu, I listened to the full set of shellfish, then to the full set of sonata, then to the steel association, and then to the string quartet. Lao Bei’s repertoire was all over the place, so I started listening to Bach and Mozart. , Schubert, Brahms, Chopin, Rahomaninoff, Old Chai, everyone loved it for a while, especially Bach’s Gothenburg, Fugue’s art, Mozart’s Requiem, Serenade, Ji The Shougang Association, the Horn Concerto, several symphonies, Schubert’s ninth, eighth, and East Journeys, Chopin’s No. 2 Steel Association, and nocturnes. These vast repertoires made me forget Lao Bei’s for a long time. exist. However, I opened this movie by coincidence today, and I was still excited when the familiar melody sounded.
Beethoven is no stranger to us. Even before listening to his music as a child, he knew that he was a man who choked his fate. Knowing that he was deaf, he made the greatest beetle in art history. Knowing him I despise Goethe's humility, know his rage, know his tight lips and upright hair. When he was a child, Beethoven has always been an inspirational model. The characters who were widely praised by Zweig in the Three Masters were understood and learned. But the more you know about him, the less you may dislike him. Compared with Mozart and Bach, he does not have the simplicity of the former, nor the piety of the latter. He is irritable, bossy, paranoid, and mean. No one around him can stand him. He never reflects on his mistakes, breaks with his brother, forced his nephew to death, owes debts, delays manuscripts, and deceives the publishing house. Not composing music, there are even suspicions of child prostitution.
I have always felt that behind Bach's rational and calm music, there is always a fanaticism of love, which bursts out in Matthew's Passion. Behind Mozart's cheerful and bright sound, there is actually compassion from God. In the Requiem, the compassion finally moves from behind the scenes to the foreground. And Beethoven's majestic and surging tunes are just undisguised mortal roars, mortal sorrow, mortal pain, and mortal helplessness and happiness.
Of the three greatest statues of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven in the history of Western music, only Beethoven is completely human.
In the movie, Beethoven asked his friend what the meaning of music is. The friend replied that it conveys the spirit of the musician. Beethoven denied this answer. He said that music only conveys the emotions of the author at that time and place, but what they convey It is tyrant, whether you accept it or not, whether you are ready or not, once the music starts, you will be dragged into the vortex of the author's emotions and tremble.
I don’t fully understand the meaning of music, but I think music is the highest art, the greatest existence in all anthropology. It directly hits the human soul, even modern people who have lost their souls, hear great music I am still shocked, afraid to move half a step, and controlled by the music unconsciously, just like I am standing still.

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Immortal Beloved quotes

  • Ludwig van Beethoven: You know why wigs went out of fashion? Because too many ended up in the bottom of baskets.

  • Johanna Reiss: He had revealed his most hidden secrets to us. The circle was broken. I could not hate the man who could write such music.